"It
is an excellent book, especially for china development.
I have booked 100 copies for our students and
professors, we can benefit much from your work."

Fengting
Li, Professor, Associate Dean College of Environmental
Science and Engineering UNEP TONGJI Institute
of Environment for Sustainable Development

"As economic,
environmental, and security imperatives converge,
advanced resource productivity is quickly rising
to the top of the global agenda. But let's make
no little plans: new technologies, artfully
combined via integrative design, can now quintuple
the work wrung from energy, water, and other
resources. Building on our 1997 collaboration
in Factor Four, and cross-pollinating with new
findings in Australia and around the world,
this exciting synthesis combines a powerful
efficiency toolkit with farsighted policy insights-vital
to ensure that efficiency's gains are not offset
but reinforced to create a richer, fairer, safer,
and cooler world."Amory B. Lovins,
Chairman and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain
Institute, Co-Author
of ‘Factor Four’

"This
book shows once again, even to the most conservative
critics, that not only are significant improvements
possible, they are more profitable, and when
coupled with the understanding that reducing
environmental devastation is critical, provide
a vital message of hope for the future, which
I have dedicated my life to help achieve."Hunter Lovins,
President, Natural Capitalism Solutions, Co-Author
of ‘Factor Four’

"The
scientific assessment of climate change requires
urgent action in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.
These could come dramatically from technological
innovation, particularly in industries like
cement and steel. These sectors could reduce
emissions by 80% on an economically viable basis,
which would be good news for world leaders and
their negotiators on climate change. Factor
Five provides several such win-win strategies."R K Pachauri,
Ph.D, Director-General, TERI

"The
exciting thing about Factor 5 is the combination
of boldness and realism. An 80 percent gain
in resource productivity is precisely what is
needed to get civilization back onto an economic
path that is environmentally sustainable. This
is a book that should be translated not only
into English, Chinese, and German, but all the
world’s major languages."Lester R. Brown,
President, Earth Policy Institute

"A
significant contribution to the current debate
on how to maintain prosperity in a carbon constrained
world. Sceptical government and corporate leaders
will be surprised to find that a Factor 5 transition
to a robust green economy is within their grasp
employing various strategies that are both politically
and economically attractive."Jim MacNeill,
Chairman Emeritus International Institute for
Sustainable Development and Secretary-General,
Brundtland Commission

"Some may have ignored the message of Factor
Four 15 years ago. We can no longer afford to
ignore it, and should now embrace the strengthened
message of Factor Five."Professor Bedrich
Moldan, Senator, Czech Republic, Former Chairman,
European Environment Agency, and former Czechoslovak
Environment Minister

"Factor
Five is the clearest non-partisan handbook on
ecological renaissance available to date. It
should be read by every policy maker and practitioner
irrespective of their political position on
global change."Professor Calestous
Juma, Harvard Kennedy School

"We
all know what will happen if we go on producing
and consuming the same way as in the twentieth
century. But we don't really know how to produce
and consume in the planet-friendly way. This
is why we need this book. So urgently."Brice Lalonde,
French Climate Ambassador, former environment
minister of France

"Is
it possible to imagine a world where we can
actually phase out fossil fuels before the climate
phases us out? Its now feasible by reading Factor
Five."Peter Newman,
Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
and author of 'Resilient Cities'

"Factor
Five is an important contribution to a growing
corpus of work regarding energy and resource
efficiency, work that is critical if the world
is to meet the looming challenges of greenhouse
gas emissions, sensible resource use, marketplace
success, and global equity. Factor Five is especially
appealing because it asks the right questions
about what we do, why we do it, and, most importantly,
how we do it. The authors have not only delved
into the major resource-consuming systems we
humans create, but rigorously explore how they
can be improved â by at least five times or
more."Cameron M. Burns,
Senior Editor and Journalist, Rocky Mountain
Institute

"The
two big challenges facing our generation are
our population explosion (physical growth),
and Climate Change (managing our natural resources).
Leadership, vision and partnership are essential
ingredients in meeting these challenges, and
many governments around the world are now providing
such leadership, particularly the US and UK
governments, and also the Premier of Queensland
who has called for a Climate Change Council
of which I am honoured to be a part. But Government
cannot meet these challenges without creative
partnerships with Industry and the community.
Factor Five is a crucial imperative, and hence
the reason why Conics Ltd agreed to be a major
sponsor in its development. Governments and
industries around the world can find in the
following pages a wealth of opportunity not
only to significantly increase resource productivity
but to reduce environmental pressures. I commend
the team behind the book and look forward to
seeing its lessons expanded and implemented
across the globe."Jim McKnoulty,
Chairman, Conics Ltd

"The
Aachen Foundation Kathy Beys is proud to have
supported the development of this book, to bring
to the worlds attention the significant opportunities
associated with resource productivity, balanced
with many years of policy and operational understanding.
The Foundation has been focused on progressing
the âFactor Xâ resource productivity agenda
for more than 10 years, and we look forward
to seeing the work in Factor Five become a reality
over the coming decades."B. Stephan Baldin,
Aachen Foundation Kathy Beys

"Over
the last few years, politicians have got used
to mouthing some of the language associated
with resource efficiency, zero waste and low-carbon
wealth creation. But their actions still lack
their words, and they are still way off the
pace that is now required. So the arrival of
'Factor Five' couldn't be more timely - or more
significant."Jonathon Porritt,
Founding Director, Forum for the Future, UK

"No
sustainable development without a sustainable
development of companies. Factor 5 provides
compelling arguments and examples that sustainable
business is achievable and profitable on a large
scale and that companies play a key role in
creating sustainable development. Factor 5 confirms
the crucial role of increasing eco-efficiency
to foster sustainable development."Stefan Schaltegger,
Professor of Sustainability Management, Leuphana
University Lüneburg

"Griffith
University has long had a focus on the environment
and sustainable development, and this work from
some of our early career academics is another
welcome contribution to the field. Facilitating
the capacity for people to lead productive and
fulfilling lives is a key role of the higher
education sector and in the coming years we
will see increasing emphasis on the importance
of sustainability in that equation. Innovations
in energy, water and materials use will need
to be accelerated and progressively incorporated
into university education. Griffith University
co-hosts The Natural Edge Project and is a proud
sponsor of this work which we think will make
a significant contribution to addressing these
needs."Professor Ned
Pankhurst, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research),
Griffith University

"A
five-fold increase of energy and resource productivity
opens exciting opportunities for industry while
helping to mititgate global warming and other
environmental threats. Eco-efficiency is a key
component of an industrial strategy toward sustainable
development."Dr.
Stephan Schmidheiny, Chairman, Anova, and founding
chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable
Development

."Strong
economic signals and innovative technologies
make a powerful combination, and are the best
hope - indeed, the only hope - of the changes
needed to protect the environment. Building
on the robust foundation of Factor Four, Ernst
von WeizsÃ¤cker and his colleagues write an inspiring
manifesto for change to reduce resource use
while minimising the impact on living conditions.
If their recipe is sometimes over-optimistic,
that is a good fault. The environment needs
some optimistic friends these days."Frances Cairncross,
Exeter College, Oxford (Author of âCosting the
Earthâ)

"Climate
change represents the biggest challenge our
generation has experienced. Factor Five shows
us through sustainable business practices we
can achieve positive environmental and economic
outcomes. They are not mutually exclusive concepts,
sustainability is just good business."Dan Atkins, Co-Founder
and Director, Business Shaper

"Surely
the ingenuity and creativity of human civilisation
can rise above economic activity saddled with
collateral damage? The opportunity to build
new markets, new industries and new jobs while
rebuilding ecosystem resilience is an exciting
challenge. Are we up to the task of our future?
Well, only if we act speedily. Read Factor 5
and rejoice that there are still options. Then
ask what role you can play to make sure the
global effort arrives in time and at sufficient
scale."Fiona Wain, Chief
Executive Officer, Environment Business Australia

Ranked
12th in the University of Cambridge Programme
for Sustainability Leadership 'Top
40 books of 2010'.

"This
book is a welcome update to Factor Four, showing
that a sustainable future is not only possible,
but also economically feasible. The idea of
long term, predictable energy price increases
deserves serious consideration by policy makers."

The 21st
century will see monumental change. Either the
human race will use its knowledge and skills and
change the way it interacts with the environment,
or the environment will change the way it interacts
with its inhabitants.

In the first case, the focus of this book, we
would see our sophisticated understanding in areas
such as physics, chemistry, engineering, biology,
planning, commerce, business and governance accumulated
over the last 1,000 years brought to bear on the
challenge of dramatically reducing our pressure
on the environment. The second case however is
the opposite scenario, involving the decline of
the planet’s ecosystems until they reach
thresholds where recovery is not possible, and
following which we have no idea what happens.
For instance, if we fail to respond to Sir Nicolas
Stern’s call to meet appropriate stabilisation
trajectories for greenhouse gas emissions, and
we allow the average temperature of our planets
surface to increase by 4-6 degrees Celsius, we
will see staggering changes to our environment,
including rapidly rising sea level, withering
crops, diminishing water reserves, drought, cyclones,
floods… allowing this to happen will be
the failure of our species, and those that survive
will have a deadly legacy.

In
this update to the 1997 International Best Seller,
Factor Four, Ernst von Weizsäcker again leads
a team to present a compelling case for sector
wide advances that can deliver significant resource
productivity improvements over the coming century.
The purpose of this book is to inspire hope and
to then inform meaningful action in the coming
decades to respond to the greatest challenge our
species has ever faced â that of living in harmony
with our planet and its other inhabitants.

Climate negotiators in Copenhagen navigate in
stormy waters. China has become more or less the
voice of the global South and asks rich countries
to come up with bold reductions of greenhouse
gas emissions, so as to leave sufficient “space”
to developing countries. The rich countries, notably
the biggest polluters per capita, the USA and
Australia, remain very hesitant. They believe
reducing the burning of coal and oil will reduce
their wealth. This is understandable because in
the past CO2 emissions have been a reliable indicator
of wealth. The Copenhagen conference, also referred
to as “COP 15”, may come to a complete
stalemate if this perceptions prevails.

It need not. There is scope for producing wealth
at roughly one fifth of today’s typical
carbon emissions. Five time more electric light
can be extracted from one kilowatt-hour than is
done today. Buildings can be constructed that
are essentially carbon free and yet have an excellent
and convenient internal air quality. In Guangzhou,
the first carbon neutral skyscraper is under construction
and will be completed in 2010. Cement can be made
with fly ash from coal power plants, using less
than one fifth of the energy needed for conventional
Portland cement. The transportation system can
improve fivefold in terms of energy and carbon
efficiency. The same can be said for today’s
wasteful agricultural production in the rich countries.

A new book has just been published in English
and will be published in Chinese next year, outlining
the fascinating technological revolution of a
five-fold increase of energy and resource productivity.
It is called “Factor Five” and is
co-authored by Ernst von Weizsäcker from
Germany and Charlie Hargroves and his team from
Australia. It describes the technological potential
of doing much more with less energy, water and
minerals, in the sectors of heavy industry, buildings,
agriculture and transportation. It also offers
political proposals of making the said revolution
happen. One of the ideas is to gently raise energy
prices, in line with the average energy efficiency
gains, - so that no social hardship would be expected.

If the American and European delegations at COP
15 were already aware of the Factor Five potentials,
they would not find it so difficult to agree with
China’s demands. And if developing countries
were aware of these exciting potentials, they
would pledge to avoid the costly, clumsy, and
environmentally very damaging road of development
the rich countries have been trotting over the
past 150 years.

Building on from ‘Factor Four’

Twelve years ago, the book Factor Four
brought together 50 case studies demonstrating
that it was possible to profitably achieve significant
improvements in resource productivity. This concept
transformed how many economists, policy makers,
engineers, entrepreneurs and business leaders
thought about innovation, environmental protection
and wealth creation.

The
book was among a small number of books that were
instrumental in the formation of The Natural
Edge Project in 2002, as it not only assured
us that significant innovation in resource productivity
and hence pollution reduction was available, but
it also made engineering and design exciting,
even in the face of a looming global environmental
catastrophe.

The
book, translated into 12 languages, effectively
demonstrated the value to business and government
of moving on from environmental protection and
pollution control, to a focus on resource productivity
and pollution prevention. Specifically, the case
studies in Factor Four included:

Part One of this new book, Factor Five,
builds on from these insights in Factor Four,
to demonstrate that after 12 years, there is now
real potential to cost effectively achieve 80
per cent, or five-fold, improvements in resource
productivity across most of the major sectors
of the economy - that is Buildings, Industry,
Agriculture and Transport (and further presents
a number of supporting online Sector Studies,
in the pulp and paper, information and communications,
and food and hospitality sectors). This new publication
is not designed to replace but to complement the
original work and we recommend that readers first
read Factor Four. Taken together these
two books show how at least 75-80 per cent resource
productivity improvements can be made throughout
most sectors of the economy.

Factor
Five deliberately focuses on the sectors
that are responsible for most of the global energy,
water and materials usage and greenhouse gas emissions.
Thus Part One provides a guide for everyone -
from individual householders, businesses, industry
sector groups, to national governments - to inform
efforts to technically achieve significant resource
productivity improvements cost effectively. Part
Two then outlines many years of experience by
Ernst von Weizsäcker in ‘Making
it Happen’, and covers topics such
as the effectiveness of regulations related to
the environment, the use of economic instruments,
dealing with the rebound dilemma, and then presents
his position on long-term ecological tax reform.
The book is then concluded by Ernst commenting
on the concept of ‘sufficiency’
and how this will play a role in the future of
our global society.

Even though it sounds obvious, the first place
to start is in asking the right questions before
starting a design, rather than assuming the answers
from the last time, as this can lead to significant
resource productivity improvements, cost reductions,
and superior performance and outcomes. This process
is often undertaken as part of a facilitated scoping
or design charrette that involves the design and
project teams. The process often starts with raising
the question of ‘what is the required
service? and how else can this same service be
provided with less environmental impact?’
Asking such a question typically leads to different
or new design options being selected that can
dramatically change the outcome of the design
- i.e. reducing the environmental impacts - but
still provide the same service.

As
the sector studies in this book show, there are
now a range of profitable options for meeting
society’s needs and providing products and
services that have a significantly reduced environmental
impact than previous solutions. As Head of Engineering
Practice for the Institution of Engineers Australia,
Martin Dwyer explained when reflecting on the
work in the book Whole System Design, ‘Systems
thinking and asking the right questions opens
up far more design options and solutions than
we first think. And some of those solutions bring
the breakthrough improvements that go far beyond
the incremental’.

For instance, when considering the need to meet
with clients and partners, a number of companies
now use video conferencing to reduce the use of
air travel; or when considering how to light a
building, more and more designers are using natural
light and advanced lamps to reduce the use of
energy intensive lights; or when considering the
need for cooking equipment, a number of restaurants
are now installing super insulated equipment to
reduce the generation of heat that air-conditioners
are generally employed to overcome. On a larger
scale, when considering how to provide the building
industry with cement, innovative companies are
now making new forms of cement, i.e. geo-polymers,
to replace the energy intensive Portland cement.

Furthermore,
power utilities are now investigating options
to meet growing demand with energy efficiency
measures in a way that provides real financial
rewards to the both the utility and the customer.
By asking the right questions at the start of
the design process, or in the beginning stages
of a retrofit design, the nature of the essential
design outcomes, and hence the required energy
and resource inputs, can be clarified. This will
then allow the consideration of alternative ways
of achieving the required outcomes, or even ways
to reduce the need for it. For example, a car
manufacturer may ask, what service does its product
provide… essentially the answer is mobility…
but it also enables the creation of significant
amounts of greenhouse gas and other pollution.
Hence the company can ask itself, is there another
way to provide mobility and reduce the environmental
pressure? As Chapter 5 will outline, this can
be done through both the re-design of cars and
in reducing the need to use them, i.e. by increasing
the use of public transport options or by shifting
freight carriage to lower impact modes - options
that both require vehicles to be designed and
maintained, a potential new market for foreword
thinking car companies of today (ironically this
is much like the steam railway engine companies
that shifted into making cars in the mid 20th
Century).

The basic premise of both books is that fundamentally
people do not want barrels of oil or cars, kilowatt
hours or coal fired power stations, electrons
or incandescent light bulbs, or steel tins for
aluminium cans. Rather, people are interested
in the services that these products provide, such
as mobility, energy, lighting, and a container
from which to drink. Rather than continuing the
previous mindset for the delivery of such services,
a holistic approach to design opens the door to
considering a new and expanding range of exciting
options. Hence, if designed appropriately, the
same energy, lighting, and drink container services
can be provided by renewable energy, energy efficient
light globes and natural light, and cans made
from recycled aluminium, which can be recycled
endlessly.

In
each case the consumer would be unaware of the
change behind the scenes as the service they require
is delivered, however, the resulting reductions
in energy demand, greenhouse gas emissions, and
pressures on the environment could be significant.
Along with such changes behind the scenes to the
design of products and services consumers can
of course make choices to reduce resource consumption
and the associated environmental pressures. For
example, ask yourself how else can you get to
work other than using your car? For instance,
if getting to work by train was faster, cheaper
and more reliable, would you take the train? We
suggest that most would say ‘yes’,
but most would also say that the current form
of public transport available to them was neither
faster nor more reliable than taking their car.
However, if the system is designed appropriately,
as it is in a number of cities, public transport
can provide a very competitive alternative, as
well as significantly reducing the energy consumption,
and greenhouse gas emissions per passenger.

The Sector Studies chosen for Part One of this
book feature sectors of the economy that focus
on fundamental human needs, namely: the need for
shelter and places to work and play (design of
buildings and the manufacture of steel and cement);
the need for food and water (agricultural practices
and operations); and mobility/trade of goods and
services (transportation). At a fundamental level,
these sectors provide services that humankind
needs, however, many of these services can be
made significantly more resource productive, reducing
their resource consumption and associated environmental
impacts - as well as their use being able to be
reduced and substituted for lower impact options,
and even eliminated through life style choices
and a focus on sufficiency, as expanded in Chapter
11. Humankind has been researching, innovating
and experimenting with better ways to meet all
these needs for thousands of years. Yet, as each
of the Sector Studies will show, it is still possible
to achieve Factor 5 resource productivity improvements,
starting with asking the right questions.

Each of the Sector Studies seeks to cover a number
of critical questions relevant to most sectors,
including the following ‘right questions’,
such as:

- Is the current method of delivering the product
or service the only way to do so? (Often the
first thought when answering this question is
‘yes’, however, further investigation
in most sectors leads to a range of alternatives
- from system upgrades, such as energy efficient
motors in an industrial application, to completely
new processes, such as shifting to a process to
predominantly use scrap metal rather than processing
primary resources to make steel.)

- If it is the only way, what are the major areas
of energy, water and materials usage, and a) what
options are available to reduce the need for such
inputs, and b) what alternatives are available
to provide these inputs? (The search for such
alternative options and inputs can be driven by
a requirement to reduce environmental impacts,
but also as part of a strategy to improve competitive
advantage by reducing input costs, which are inevitably
set to increase in the future as availability
and impact are factored in.)

- If it is not the only way, what alternatives
to the system currently used can be used to profitably
deliver the product or service with less resource
intensity and environmental pressure? (For
instance, in Chapter 3 we show that geo-polymers
can be used to create cement with at least 80
per cent less energy intensity, while eliminating
the significant process emissions of greenhouse
gases associated with Portland cement.)

Once the initial questions as to the best way
to meet the design requirement have been answered
the conceived system needs to be benchmarked against
best practice in order to understand the potential
for performance. For instance, if a state-of-the-art
sub-surface deprivation drip irrigation system
has been selected (rather than the typical flood
irrigation system) the designers need to study
applications of such designs in order to understand
the potential of the system and to investigate
the operating parameters. However, in many cases
the new design concept will be part of an emerging
wave of innovation as explained in the Introduction
and hence their may be little precedent to provide
a benchmark. Further, even if there are established
examples of the new design, such processes and
methodologies are unlikely to be incorporated
into university or professional development courses.
In this case modelling based on the theoretical
performance, and calibrated by the current best
practice, can be used to guide the expectations
of the design. As the International Energy Agency
(IEA) reported in 2006, ‘The energy
intensity of most industrial processes is at least
50% higher than the theoretical minimum determined
by the laws of thermodynamics. Many processes
have very low energy efficiency and average energy
use is much higher than the best available technology
would permit.’

Although designing projects that are outside the
realm of the well established solutions is challenging,
it can offer significant rewards, especially as
the requirement to reduce environmental pressures
is only set to increase in the future. Leading
Australian whole system designer, Adjunct Professor
Alan Pears, states that, ‘I have used
benchmarking and modelling as part of a whole
system design approach to improve resource efficiency
of products and industrial processes often by
a Factor of 2 or better. An exciting consequence
of applying a whole system design approach is
the drastically reduced need for end-of-pipe treatment,
both in the local area and potentially in the
wider air, soil and waterways’. It
is also important to consider ways to increase
the flexibility of the design outcome to help
improve the utility of the design at the end of
its life. Opportunities include designing buildings
so that when they are dismantled materials can
be reused, designing manufactured products and
transportation vehicles to maximise recyclability,
and designing systems that can be used with a
variety of renewable energy options. For instance,
Chapter 5 shows that it is possible to significantly
improve the fuel efficiency of cars, which then
opens up new renewable energy and fuel options.
General Motors’ new plug-in hybrid concept
car, the Voltec, is designed so that the car can
run on petrol, bio-fuels or hydrogen, ensuring
that the car design can take advantage of whichever
fuel mixtures dominate the market in the future.

Dean
of the Bren School of Environmental Science and
Management at the University of Santa Barbara since
January 2006. Previously served as the policy director
at the United Nations Centre for Science and Technology
for Development, director of the Institute for European
Environmental Policy, and president of the Wuppertal
Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy.
Von Weizsacker is a member of the Club of Rome and
served on the World Commission on the Social Dimensions
of Globalization. Later he became a member of the
Bundestag, the federal parliament of Germany, where
he was appointed Chairman
of the Environmental Committee. Von Weizsäcker
has authored several influential books on the environment,
including ‘Earth Politics’ and ‘Factor
Four’. His many honours and awards include
the prestigious Takeda World Environment Award and
the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Medal, presented by World
Wildlife Fund International.

Karlson
‘Charlie’ Hargroves, co-founder and
TNEP Executive Director, is a graduate of Civil
Engineering from the University of Adelaide in 2000.
In 2004 Charlie was seconded from TNEP for a 12
month visiting scholar position at the University
of Colorado, Boulder. Charlie is a co-author and
the co-editor of ‘The Natural Advantage of
Nations: Business Opportunities, Innovation and
Governance in the 21st Century’. In 2005 the
book received the highly contested Banksia Award
for Environmental Leadership, Training and Education.
Charlie and the team from TNEP have developed a
range of projects focused on education and training
for sustainable development, including working with
Universities, Professional Bodies, Government Agencies,
Companies, Schools and touring international keynote
speakers. Through the development of this and other
TNEP initiatives Charlie is developing his PhD in
Sustainable Industry Policy at Murdoch University
under the supervision of Prof. Peter Newman.

Michael
H. Smith, co-founder and TNEP Research Director,
completed a double major Science degree in Chemistry
and Mathematics from the University of Melbourne,
in his honours year, Michael researched chemicals
to replace those that destroy the ozone layer at
the University of Sydney Michael is a co-author
and the co-editor of ‘The Natural Advantage
of Nations: Business Opportunities, Innovation and
Governance in the 21st Century’. In 2005 the
book received the highly contested Banksia Award
for Environmental Leadership, Training and Education.
His recently completed PhD thesis at the Australian
National University investigated the latest advances
in the classic sustainability debates such as economic
growth vs. sustainable development with co-supervisor
Dr Stephen Dovers. In 2006, Michael was seconded
as a Departmental Visitor to ANU's Centre for Resource
and Environmental Studies as a representative of
TNEP to work on capacity building material, under
funding from the CSIRO Energy Transformed Flagship
in collaboration with Griffith University, and other
TNEP partners.

Supported
by the team from The Natural Edge Project

Cheryl
Desha (Paten), TNEP Education Director graduated
in Environmental Engineering (First Class Honours)
with the University Medal from Griffith University.
Cheryl worked in an international consulting engineering
firm for four years. In 2005 Cheryl was selected
as the Engineers Australia Young Professional Engineer
of the Year. Cheryl is a co-author of The Natural
Advantage of Nations.

Peter
Stasinopoulos, TNEP Research Officer, is a graduate
in Mechatronic Engineering with First Class
Honours and Mathematical and Computer Sciences
from the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Peter is focusing on the TNEP Design Principles
Portfolio and in partnership with University
of South Australia is now undertaking a Masters
degree by research in the field of Whole Systems
Design Engineering.

Stacey
Hargroves, Professional Editor, is a graduate of
the University of Canberra, holding a Bachelor of
Applied Science. Stacey is currently undertaking
a Masters in Editing and Publishing by coursework
with the University of South Queensland. Stacey
started TNEP in 2002 working as a copyeditor on
our first book, ‘The Natural Advantage of
Nations’, and has since worked on a number
of key publications and deliverables since as our
professional editor.

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